Twenty Seconds CV — LaTeX resume template
Also known as: 20 Seconds CV, twentysecondcv
- Layout:
- Banner header
- ATS parsing:
- Layout can extract out of order in strict parsers
- Style class:
- Styled
- Photo slot:
- No
- Best density:
- Senior / dense
- Suggested role:
- Marketing Manager
- Tier:
- Pro design
Who the Twenty Seconds CV template is for
- Marketing and social candidates handing resumes to people, not portals
- Career-fair and networking one-pagers built to be skimmed in seconds
- Candidates with tight, focused content that fits an airy layout
Based on the open-source Twenty Seconds CV design, widely shared on Overleaf and LaTeX template galleries.
Twenty Seconds CV template FAQ
- Is Twenty Seconds CV ATS-friendly?
- No. The banner-plus-two-column structure that makes Twenty Seconds CV quick for humans to skim causes strict ATS parsers to extract the PDF text out of reading order, detaching skills and dates from the roles they belong to. Reserve it for human-read uses, career fairs, referrals, direct email, and submit a single-column design to ATS portals; ResumeWizard flags this and suggests an ATS-safe alternative.
- Do I need to know LaTeX to use Twenty Seconds CV?
- No. ResumeWizard compiles the design in the cloud, so you skip TeX installs, packages, and compile errors entirely. You edit content in a normal online editor, the live preview shows the turquoise band and icon layout as you type, and the finished PDF downloads in one click, matching what the original template produces.
